I thought I had a chance at this Northrup King Northern Grown Tested Seeds box at Saturday’s North Star Auction, but I’ll skip the middle part of the story and say it ended at $775 and I didn’t even get my hand up. One of the best vintage illustrations and designs I’ve seen, and also one of the best preserved. Magnificent!
A little bit Wonder Woman with a little bit 1980’s hard rock band. Nice.
Fresh from an antique store in Bismarck, a 1952 book on how to make different typefaces by hand. Thank God for computers (on the 8th day).
Bodoni the old-old-old-school way. I bodon’t think so.
I saw this floor display for Mission Athletic Care in our local Lowe’s Home Improvement store and I can’t decide if this assembled quirk is a design fail or design win.
Eye caramba!
Let’s call it a fawin.
Sometimes my contact lenses feel like this.
Step right up and don’t be shy, because you will not believe your eyes!
Behold, the carnival-attraction majesty of Space Odyssey 2000!
Space Odyssey 2000 is not to be confused with “2001: A Space Odyssey” — It’s completely different! Totally different! Continue reading
Heinzsight. I love it when somebody takes a brand and puts more into it than they have to. In this case, Heinz did some sweet seasonal ketchup bottle labels — They didn’t have to, but they did, and that made it better. Brand personality, yo.
Groovy work, Heinz. I hope you do something like this again soon.
NOTE: I was told there was also a summer beachball tomato label, but alas, I was not in time.
In 1983, Andy Warhol created over 40 screen prints featuring Perrier bottles.
In 2013, Perrier created 4 Perrier bottle labels as a tribute to Andy Warhol.
In 2015, Clayton Hove found them on a dusty K-Mart shelf in Bismarck, North Dakota, and bought them because he thought they were kinda neat.
Branding done right.
This is thinking outside the box in the truest sense! Big props to the creative and practical minds behind Puma’s Clever Little Bag, using 65% less paper than regular shoeboxes. Plus, a reusable bag. Clever indeed.